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by Stephen Downes
September 3, 2008

Google Chrome Now Live
Google's Chrome browser is now available. You can download it for free and install it on your Windows machine (Linux and Apple users won't even see the download link). Here's the Wikipedia page on Chrome. The open source project behind Chrome is called Chromium, and you can download the source for various systems and mess around with it. Here's the developer documentation.

Oooohh...Chrome Is Shiny....So?
Mark Oehlert comments on the way Chrome was announced. "I think it becomes pretty apparent that we hunger for visual explanations. ..and since we're on this topic, you should all go to VizThink - that's a gimme. So the question then is why do we continue to bias text over images?" (p.s. Mark please get rid of those SnapShots previews - they bog down the page load and make it a paid to view... just sayin'...)
Mark Oehlert,
e-Clippings,
September 3, 2008 [Link] [Tags: Google Chrome]
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A Bug in Google Chrome
Pretty picky... but... "Google Chrome wrongly displays alternate styles as if active, thus "breaking" websites that use them." Well, ok, but that's for browser-specific code,m isn't it? But "To compete with Microsoft, the new browser must offer what other browsers do not." Well, is this so? Will we see Chrome-only features?
Jeffrey Zeldman,
Weblog,
September 3, 2008 [Link] [Tags: Google, Microsoft, Google Chrome]
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First Impressions of Google Chrome
Interesting comment: "The future for Chrome is difficult to predict. Some have said it is a potential Windows killer, and if you look at the comments for any of the coverage on Google Chrome there will be people saying that it is unlikely that Internet Explorer users will switch, as one comment stated: 'It's Firefox that will suffer, not IE. Many IE users wouldn't know how to change browser, nor why they might want to'."
Liam Green-Hughes,
Weblog,
September 3, 2008 [Link] [Tags: Google, Microsoft, Google Chrome]
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Where Is the Aldus Pagemaker for the Cloud?
I remember Aldus Pagemaker. It really did revolutionize publishing. It came out just as I was in my graphic design period (I was doing a lot of posters and things for people), so I learned a lot about it. Now Steve Borsch is right - there is no PageMaker for Chrome. Yet. But one of the things I tried to do yesterday (it didn't work) was to drag a tab right into a Blogger input field. You see, what should happen is that the entire tab - with all its functionality - should embed into my page. Now this I think will be enabled by Chrome, eventually. This will be a game-changer.
Steve Borsch,
Connecting the Dots,
September 3, 2008 [Link] [Tags: Blogger, Books, Google, Paradigm Shift, Google Chrome]
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